31976R0498

6 . 3 . 76 No L 59/ 17 Official Journal of the European Communities

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 498 / 76 of 4 March 1976 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on men's and boys' under garments, etc., of cotton fabric , falling within heading No ex 61.03 , originating in India, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regula­ tion ( EEC) No 3002/75 of 17 November 1975 apply

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN No ex 61.03, the ceiling, calculated as indicated above, COMMUNITIES , should be 331 metric tons, and therefore the maximum amount 99-300 metric tons ; whereas on 2 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European March 1976 the amounts of imports into the Commu­ Economic Community, nity of men's and boys' under garments, etc, of cotton Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC) No fabric falling within heading No ex 61.03, originating 3002/75 of 17 November 1975 establishing preferen­ in India, a country covered by preferential tariff arran­ tial tariffs in respect of certain cotton textile and like gements, reached that maximum amount ; whereas, products originating in developing countries ('), and bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation (EEC) in particular Article 4 (2) thereof, No 3002/75 which provides that maximum amounts Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation should not be exceeded, customs duties should be provides that customs duties may, for each category of re-established in respect of the products in question products, be suspended up to a Community ceiling in relation to India, equal to 1 66 % of the sum arrived at by adding together the value of the products in question , metric HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : tons , imported into the Community in 1968 and coming from countries listed in Annex B to that Regu­ lation , but not including products coming from coun­ Article 1 tries already covered by various preferential tariff arran­ As from 9 March 1976, the levying of customs duties, gements established by the Community, and 5 % of the 1970 metric tonnage of such imports coming suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3002/75 of 17 November 1975, shall be from other countries and from countries already re-established in respect of the following products, covered by such arrangements ; whereas, having regard imported into the Community and originating in to that ceiling, the amounts for products originating India : in any one of the countries listed in Annex B to that Regulation should be within a maximum Community amount representing 50 % of that ceiling, with the CCT heading Description of goods exception of certain products for which the maximum No amount is to be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to that Regulation ; whereas, for those ex 61.03 Men's and boys' under garments, including products, this reduced percentage will be 30 % ; collars, shirt fronts and cuffs : Whereas Article 2 (2) of that Regulation provides that — Of cotton fabric the levying of customs duties may be re-established at any time in respect of imports of the products in ques­ tion originating in any of the said countries once the Article 2 relevant Community maximum amount has been reached ; This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day Whereas, in respect of men 's and boys' under following its publication in the Official Journal of garments, etc, of cotton fabric falling within heading the European Communities.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States .

Done at Brussels , 4 March 1976 .

For the Commission

Finn GUNDELACH Member of the Commission

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